Forgive me if this discussion has happened before, but I could not find it...
We have been looking for a cost concious dialup solution. The price of a Digi
RAS card plugged into a linux box is of course extremely attractive. Earlier a
commserver was purchased from Cabletron (a CSX7000), so that is what the linux
solution is being compared to. So far I have found only one drawback to the
linux box. The CSX7000's compression "subsystem" (as they call it) enables the
transfer of text files at double the speed of the linux box. When I turn this
option off, the linux box once again outperforms the CSX7000 in the transfer of
text files, as it always has with compressed files.
Nearly all of our users are dialing in with Win95 DUN. Myself and a few others
that run linux at home connect with the linux pppd, but the number is
negligible.
Is this problem happening because the Win95 DUN client cannot do the compression
supported by the linux pppd (Deflate, or BSD)?
Or is it that the compression scheme that is supported with Win 95 DUN, is not
available to linux pppd because of some licensing issues, or some technical
incompatibility?
Does anyone know of anything I can do to get compression to work between linux
<---> Win95 peers?
Thanks in advance for your help...
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Scott Knight, Network Analyst - SSM Health Care, Information Center
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